Brain Wave Sensor Shields You From Phone Calls When Your Mind Is Too Busy
Good TimesDan Nosowitz"My mind is occupied. Please call back later." We've had a good time with the Necomimi Cat Ears in the past--we used them to monitor our interest in the last iPhone event--but the...
View ArticleHow The World Will End, According To 1939
COLLISION "A giant meteor running wild through space... may strike the Earth and spread havoc with its impact and scorching breath." Popular Science archivesYou will burn. You will freeze. And the moon...
View ArticleInvented: A Much Better Way To Predict Airline Delays
Airport Traffic in DubaiWikimedia CommonsCalculating air travel is a surprisingly tough math challenge. If you consider how many things have to go right for it to work, passenger flight is a seamless...
View ArticleWhy Dudes Who Can't Smell Never Get Laid
NosesDreamstimeOne of the unexpected parts of not having a sense of smell. About 2 million people in the United States can't smell anything. That's got to be great if, say, you're walking past a...
View ArticleWhat Part Of This Scene Is Made Of Lego? And Other Amazing Images
Lego LifeNathan Sawaya/Dean West via designboom Plus a tower of humanity, a shape-shifting ballet school and more Click here to enter the gallery   Â
View ArticleHow It Works: The Robotic Chicken Butcher
The Robotic Chicken ButcherDaniel Schumpert and Jason BrineyIf you've ever wondered how boneless chicken parts end up that way, take a peek inside one of the 4,000 or so poultry processing plants in...
View ArticleWith Brain-To-Brain Connection, A Human Wags A Rat's Tail
Controlling another living animal with just your brain. It's a little bit scary! In a world's first, a researcher was able to create a brain-to-brain interface with an animal of another species, and...
View ArticleMeet The NASA Scientist Who's Reinventing The Wheel
Rowheels Salim Nasser's invention could dramatically reduce how much energy a wheelchair user expends moving his or her chair forward. RowheelsSalim Nasser's wheel design could dramatically reduce the...
View ArticleInteractive Tool Shows You How To Hide Your Millions Offshore
Tax HavensCBCNewsStash your dough in the Bahamas, "invest" in diamonds, and spend your tax-free cash. You probably have a sketchy idea of tax havens--the pillowcases of the super-rich--but might not...
View ArticlePlan B Must Be Available OTC For Women And Girls Of All Ages, Federal Judge...
Two-tablet Plan B packageVixyView on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0The Food and Drug Administration ordered to comply within 30 days A federal judge ruled today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must...
View ArticleScientists Can Pluck Images Out Of Your Dreams
Sweet DreamsSima DimitricA new method can visualize with 60 percent accuracy what you're seeing while you sleep. With just an fMRI, an algorithm, and the internet, researchers from Kyoto, Japan...
View ArticleWatch Raspberries Shatter In Slow Motion
A dramatic way to garnish PopSci is pleased to present videos created by ChefSteps, the free-to-learn culinary school started by alumni of the creative team behind Modernist Cuisine. These original...
View ArticleThis Iranian Drone Could Someday Save Your Life
Pars Aerial RescueRTS LabsThough still a concept, this robot lifeguard should be one robot people are grateful to see coming. Lifeguards of the future may soon come with four rotors.RTS Labs, an...
View ArticleGas-Masked, Camouflaged Robot Passes For A Menacing Human
PETMAN tries on some new duds. The robot-makers over at Boston Dynamics make some consistently amazing robots, and consistently amazing videos of said robots. Another of their 'bots, BigDog, took...
View ArticleBracelet For Human Rights Workers Sends Kidnapping Alerts to Facebook, Twitter
Bracelet AlarmNatalia Project, Civil Rights DefendersWhen activated, the device sends "Help!" messages social media accounts and nearby aid workers. Activists and aid workers who document government...
View ArticleJurassic Park 4's Dinosaurs Will Not Have Feathers
Jurassic Park's T-RexUniversal PicturesWhich means the movie about cloning legions of dinosaurs from preserved DNA will be unrealistic. There's going to be a Jurassic Park 4, and there's some...
View ArticleThis Video Of A Blossom Bat Will Convince You That Bats Are The Cutest
Hi Blossom BatAdam CoxIs your idea of a bat something scary like a vampire bat or weird like a leaf-nosed bat? Meet the blossom bat. Even its name is adorable! So the first thing to know about bats is...
View ArticleSee The First Images Of BMW's Sleek New Concept X4
BMW Concept X4BMWPart SUV, part coupe Click here to enter the galleryBMW has just released images of its new Concept X4, the carmaker's second so-called Sports Activity Coupe. The five-door Concept X4...
View ArticleThis Week In The Future: I've Had It With This Phone!
This Week In The Future, April 1-5, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, our Facebook phones will be fireproof. Want to win this inflammable Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow...
View ArticleRobots to the Rescue [Sponsored Post]
First Repsonders When disaster strikes and danger looms, the heroes that burst onto the scene to save the day might not even be human. It's hard to comprehend the bravery required for a person to run...
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